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The gap between the present state of the art in hydrogen production, storage, and use and that needed for a competitive hydrogen economy is too wide to bridge in incremental advances. It will take fundamental breakthroughs of the kind that come only from basic research.
In a new review of cold fusion – the claim that energy can be generated by running electrical current through water – the US Department of Energy released a report yesterday that says the evidence remains inconclusive, echoing a similar report 15 years ago.
Researchers at a government nuclear laboratory and a ceramics company in Salt Lake City say they have found a way to produce pure hydrogen with far less energy than other methods, raising the possibility of using nuclear power to indirectly wean the transportation system from its dependence on oil.
The moon contains 10 times more energy in the form of helium-3 than all the fossil fuels on the earth, but the fusion reactor technology may be decades away.
A secretive group in Middle Tennessee wants to build from scratch one of the biggest colleges in the Southeast, and the only college in the nation to be completely dedicated to energy.
The Oil Age, defined by abundant and cheap petroleum that fueled a century of boundless economic growth for the United States and other industrialized nations, is coming to a close more rapidly than most Americans realize.
Europe could be about to win the race to host Iter, the world’s biggest nuclear fusion reactor.
Climate change will impact every one of us. For this reason, governments all over the world are making moves to mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. Geosequestration is the new kid on the block in energy technology research. It has become very popular politically, so much so that Australia’s Howard Government, following the lead of the US, is investing heavily in it. But at what cost?
Soaring oil prices have convinced governments of the need for a change in energy technology – the race to build wave and tidal stream machines is on.
Renewable energy works almost solely on the basis of using local resources, and can’t contribute efficiently to a grid in the quantities desired. What Amory Lovins knows, deep down, is that the peak of oil extraction globally will not allow for a transition to a less-intensive energy diet. His plan would have made sense three decades ago, perhaps, when global warming seemed just a theory.
TDP turns just about anything into oil and fertilizer. And when I say “anything,” I mean that: animal waste, medical waste, human waste. Used diapers, used computers, used tires. Anything that’s not radioactive can be tossed into the hopper.
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Michael Lucking
